Introduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started with the GMAT 5 Chapter 1: The Lowdown on the GMAT 7 Chapter 2: Maximizing Your Score on the GMAT 17 Chapter 3: Mastering Business School Admissions 27 Part 2: Creating a GMAT Study Plan 33 Chapter 4: Planning Your Approach 35 Chapter 5: GMAT Practice Assessment 41 Chapter 6: Scoring and Interpreting the Practice Assessment 55 Part 3: Vanquishing the Verbal Section 71 Chapter 7: Applying What You Learned (We Hope) in Grammar Class: Sentence Correction 73 Chapter 8: Not as Enticing as a Bestseller: Reading Comprehension 95 Chapter 9: Thinking This through Logically: Critical Reasoning 117 Chapter 10: Bringing It Together: A Mini Practice Verbal Section 143 Part 4: Acing the Analytical Writing Section 159 Chapter 11: Analyze This: What to Expect from the Analytical Writing Assessment 161 Chapter 12: Present Perfect Paragraphs: How to Write a GMAT Essay 165 Chapter 13: Deconstructing Sample GMAT Essays 173 Chapter 14: Sampling a Series of Writing Prompts 181 Part 5: Conquering the Quantitative Section 189 Chapter 15: Getting Back to Basics: Numbers and Operations 191 Chapter 16: Considering All the Variables: Algebra 213 Chapter 17: Getting the Angle on Geometry: Planes and Solids 237 Chapter 18: Keeping in Step: Coordinate Geometry 257 Chapter 19: Manipulating Numbers: Statistics and Sets 271 Chapter 20: It's All in the Presentation: GMAT Quantitative Question Types 287 Chapter 21: All Together Now: A Mini Practice Quantitative Section 305 Part 6: Excelling on the Integrated Reasoning Section 323 Chapter 22: Best of Both Worlds: The Integrated Reasoning Section 325 Chapter 23: Deciphering Data in Charts and Graphs 341 Part 7: Practice Makes Perfect 353 Chapter 24: GMAT Practice Test 355 Chapter 25: Practice Test Answers and Explanations 381 Part 8: The Part of Tens 409 Chapter 26: Ten Question Types You've Got a Good Shot At 411 Chapter 27: Ten Writing Errors to Avoid 415 Chapter 28: Ten Ways to Increase Your Chances of Getting into Business School 419 Index 423.